Viva Las Vegas!

This month is Travis and my 12th anniversary. We celebrated with a 4 day trip to Vegas at the beginning of the month. Ali came home from Rexburg to stay with the kids and we had a great time!

One of my best friends from high school calls Vegas home and we met up with she and her adorable little guy for breakfast.

We stayed at a hotel twice the size of our little town.


We walked up and down the strip and ate really well, and were so glad our innocent little children weren't there to see what we were seeing. Oy!

We loved the water show at the Bellagio

We don't take very good pictures of ourselves...

We went to the m&m factory

As always there is business to conduct. Both with church and work.

Travis was a really good sport and went to the outlet mall with me for FOUR hours. We also had a lot of fun with Travis' bro and some of his family and we all went to the BSU/UNLV game. So fun!

It was so nice to laugh and talk, and then to come home.

Happy twelve years Kraupp Family!

Halloween

Happy Halloween nearly a month late!

The Kraupp kids love Halloween. Megan is still talking about it the day before Thanksgiving. Annie enjoys the candy, but could go without dressing up. Speaking of dressing up, it seems there are more and more events each year for which we put on costumes and celebrate Halloween. I think we dressed up three or four different times this year.

Annie was...dressed up. Everyone kept asking her what she was. I told her to just say, "I'm dressed up."

Emma was Dorothy. Grandma Jo was kind enough to sew us a skirt, and Sophie was kind enough to let us use Halloween paint to spray her black.

Jacob was an astronaut. It was perfect considering how much he enjoyed the Kennedy Space Center this past spring and it cost $1.99.

Megan was Minnie Mouse. It was her third year dressed as Minnie and I have enough costumes in the Halloween box for three more years of the same. Considering she thinks she owns Disneyworld, what else could she be?

Justin dressed as Buzz. What else would he be?

We sure feel blessed to have all these girls in our life!

Carving Pumpkins

On Halloween night the Kraupp Kids got to do something they have never done before--ring door bells, say trick or treat and hold out their bags for candy. Living in the country like we do, it just isn't something they have ever done--so we thought it would be fun to trick or treat in Grandma and Grandpa's neighborhood.

Aunt Kenna went with along for the madness
It was a fun but long day and there were some tired kiddos on the ride home.

Family Pictures 2011

Ah, Travis' favorite time of the year--family pictures.